LAHORE, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Police arrested Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan in Lahore yesterday after a court sentenced him to three years in prison for illegally selling state gifts, potentially barring the opposition leader from contesting an upcoming election.
(Reuters) – Social media influencer Kai Cenat has been charged with inciting a riot after he announced a giveaway of video game consoles that drew thousands of people to a New York City park on Friday and sparked violent clashes with police.
ABUJA, (Reuters) – The World Bank is aiming to help fund construction of 1,000 mini solar power grids in Africa’s biggest economy Nigeria in partnership with the government and private sector, the lender’s president Ajay Banga said yesterday.
BELEM, Brazil, (Reuters) – Raoni Metuktire, an Indigenous chief from Brazil’s Amazon, will urge the region’s head of state meeting here this coming week to step up their efforts to preserve the rainforest that is vital to his people’s survival and the global climate.
KYIV, (Reuters) – A Ukrainian sea drone full of explosives struck a Russian fuel tanker overnight near a bridge linking Russia to annexed Crimea, the second such attack in 24 hours, both sides said yesterday.
KAMPALA, (Reuters) – Uganda has begun restoring a branch of a century-old, British-built railway line that is expected to cut the cost of shipping goods to the country’s north, South Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo, a railway spokesperson said.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s top court suspended opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi’s defamation conviction on Friday, allowing him to return to parliament and contest national elections due next year.
(Trinidad Express) A San Fernando businesswoman was shot dead outside her home at Union Hall yesterday morning.
LAHORE, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Police arrested Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan in Lahore today after a court sentenced him to three years in prison for illegally selling state gifts, potentially barring the opposition leader from contesting an upcoming election.
KYIV, (Reuters) – A Ukrainian sea drone full of explosives struck a Russian fuel tanker overnight near a bridge linking Russia to annexed Crimea, the second such attack in 24 hours, both sides said today.
ABUJA/NIAMEY, (Reuters) – West African defence chiefs have drawn up a plan for military action if Niger’s coup is not overturned by tomororw, the regional bloc said yesterday, after mediation failed in a crisis that threatens regional security and has drawn in global powers.
BRUSSELS/LONDON, (Reuters) – China yesterday said it would send a senior official to Saudi Arabia for weekend talks on finding a peaceful settlement to the war in Ukraine, a forum that excludes Russia, in a diplomatic coup for Kyiv, the West and the Saudi hosts.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s Supreme Court yesterday ordered a “broad and diverse restructuring” of the Venezuelan Red Cross and the dismissal of the president and members of the board of directors.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Thousands of people overran New York City’s Union Square and the surrounding streets yesterday in a chaotic scene after a popular live streamer announced a “giveaway” event, with police struggling to contain fans throwing projectiles and injuring officers.
MELEKHOVO, Russia, (Reuters) – Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny had an extra 19 years in a maximum security penal colony added to his jail term yesterday in a criminal casethat he said was designed to cow the Russian people into political submission.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s top court suspended opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi’s defamation conviction today, allowing him to return to parliament and contest national elections due next year.
(Reuters) – A Russian warship was seriously damaged in an overnight Ukrainian naval drone attack on Russia’s Black Sea navy base at Novorossiysk, two sources said today, after Russia said it had fended off the attack.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Donald Trump pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges he orchestrated a plot to try to overturn his 2020 election loss in what U.S.
LISBON, (Reuters) – One of the biggest crowds ever seen in Portugal mobbed Pope Francis yesterday as he rode in an open vehicle to a rally where he told an ocean of young Catholics from all over the world to beware the false happiness lurking in social media.
(Reuters) – Russian social media users reported hearing explosions and gunfire near the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossiysk this morning, which could indicate the first Ukrainian attack on one of Russia’s main commercial ports.
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